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0 pointstholdem1y ago0 comments

All adversaries are just humans and humans do stupid mistakes. Opsec and maintaining it is really hard. Just one mistake is enough. It's astounding to read about the really stupid mistakes adversaries do to get caught. But there is of course also the bias that we only read about the mistakes of ones that do get caught.

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mdhb1y ago

Zero disagreement here whatsoever.

I have story after story after story of people who should have known better who got done for really silly shit.

I’m only making the argument here that that specific technique has some real limitations and known work arounds to the point that people actively know to look for it and that as a result I would personally look for other techniques that don’t have the same set of trade offs.

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